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Research English At Durham
by Research English At DurhamREAD gives you an insight into the groundbreaking literary research from Durham University’s world-class Department of English Studies. Our podcasts feature lectures by our researchers, as well as poetry readings and interviews with authors. Visit our blog and follow us on social media, or find out more about the Department of English Studies.
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Episodes
Space, choreography and royal iconography at the English court
19m · PublishedFor diplomats coming to the court of Charles I, it was more than a case of knocking at the door and being shown in. In this Late Summer Lectures podcast, Kimberley Foy uses the experience of visiting ambassadors to show how attending the court of Charles I involved a carefully choreographed set of moves, through particular spaces.
For more information and an accessible transcript, visit our blog.
Rousing the vox populi in James Shirley’s The Politician
19m · PublishedIn this podcast from our Late Summer Lectures series, Kathleen Foy from Durham University explains how James Shirley’s 1639 tragedy The Politician reflected the court and politics of Charles I.
For more information and an accessible transcript, visit our blog.
Birds and Embodiment in Shelley and Keats
23m · PublishedIn this podcast from our Late Summer Lectures series, Dr Amanda Blake Davis of the University of Sheffield takes us on a flight through birds and embodiment in the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats.
For more information, and an accessible transcript, visit: https://readdurhamenglish.wordpress.com/?p=30434
The Autobiographical Pursuit of Happiness in Eighteenth-Century Literature
30m · PublishedIn this podcast from our Late Summer Lectures series, Alex Hobday (University of Cambridge) examines how eighteenth-century culture sought to answer that eternal question: what is happiness, and how can we achieve it?
For more information, and an accessible transcript, visit: https://readdurhamenglish.wordpress.com/?p=30441
In Conversation with Jane Smiley
45m · PublishedIn a wide-ranging interview, Pulitzer-prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley explains how literary characters take on a life of their own, reflects on the representation of the body in literature, and examines her own status as a female novelist emerging in the 1970s. This conversation between Dr Jennifer Terry and Jane Smiley was recorded at the Literary Dolls conference in 2014.
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An Evening with T.S. Eliot
49m · PublishedThe Centre for Poetry and Poetics held an evening to celebrate the poetry and influence of T.S. Eliot. Dr Gareth Reeves and Professor Jason Harding, two scholars who specialise in Eliot’s life and works, read from Eliot's own poetry and that of later poets such as Donald Davie and Hart Crane who were inspired by him.
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Antler
11m · PublishedJohn Clegg’s first collection, Antler, features prehistoric landscapes, folk tale and myth. John’s reading includes a history of a city in four stanzas, and the story of an “ice road trucker.” John Clegg’s poetry is published by and copyright of Salt Publishing.
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To Hell with Paradise
16m · PublishedGareth Reeves’ third collection, To Hell With Paradise: New and Selected Poems, has just been published by Carcanet. In this reading from the collection, Gareth adopts a range of intriguing perspectives and voices, including that of a cash machine looking at a man trying to withdraw his money, and Dimitri Shostakovich thinking about bird droppings. Gareth Reeves’s collection is published by and copyright of Carcanet.
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The Challenges of Researching and Writing Poetry
11m · PublishedTwo of the Department’s published poets, Gareth Reeves and his PhD student John Clegg, explore how their writing of poetry relates to their research.
They explain how they began writing poetry rather than writing about poetry, and discuss how writing poetry gives them unique insights into the forms and methods employed in the work of other poets.
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The Poetry of W.B. Yeats
1h 3m · PublishedA century and a half since his birth, the Irish poet W.B. Yeats is one of the best-loved in the English language, known for his lyric poems such as ‘The Lake Isle of Innishfree’ or for romantic poems like ‘He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven.’ Throughout his literary career, though, Yeats wrote in a range of styles and on diverse subjects. His poems reflect his Irish nationalism, reinvent traditional genres, draw inspiration from Irish myth and legend, and push into innovative symbolism. Stephen Regan and Michael O’Neill take us on a journey through the varied landscape of Yeats’s verse.
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Research English At Durham has 45 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 23:22:59. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on August 12th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on March 29th, 2024 17:13.